Criminal Records Review Act
Overview of the Act
The Criminal Records Review Act was designed to help protect children from individuals whose criminal record indicates they pose a risk of physical or sexual abuse.
All individuals who work with children, or have unsupervised access to children in the ordinary course of their employment, or in the practice of an occupation, or during the course of an education program and who are employed by or licensed by, or receive operating funds from the provincial government are included under the Criminal Records Review Act.
Doctors, nurses, hospital employees, dentists, teachers, non-teaching staff such as school cleaners, registered students in a post secondary institution who will work with children, and child care providers are just some of the groups whose records must be checked. Volunteers and residents age 12 and older at a licensed or licence-not-required child care facility are also included under the act.
Read the full Criminal Records Review Act for specific information such as definitions, the use of information, the effects of finding an individual is a risk or fines that may be imposed for failure to comply with the act. (Note, this electronic version of the act is being updated and may not contain the recent changes.)
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